Landscaping equipment stolen from trailers in Rockaway Township

ROCKAWAY TWP. - The owner of a Richards
Avenue company called police at 5:30 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, to
report more than $20,000 worth of items stolen from locked trailers
at his business.

The locks were cut on a couple of the
trailers, as was the lock on the chain link and barbed wire fence
surrounding the parking area. An assortment of landscaping
equipment was missing.

A report of a possible burglary in progress
brought police to a West Lake Shore Road house at 1:48 a.m. on
Thursday, Sept. 6, and it was ascertained more than $1,125 in
electronics items had been stolen.

Officers found the front door unlocked and
checked the house. After establishing no one was present, they
noticed there were no television sets in the house.

They were able to reach the homeowner, a
Brooklyn, N.Y., resident. He said there should have been three
television sets and a stereo, as well as a couple of videocassette
recorders in the house. All were missing. A screen on a kitchen
window appeared to have been bent and pushed in to gain access to
the house.

A Realtor called police at 7:40 p.m. on
Sunday, Sept. 9, after discovering a vacant house she has sold had
been burglarized. The house had been emptied of almost all items by
the owner awaiting completion of the sale.

The back door had been forced open to gain
access to the house. It did not appear any damage was done, but the
Realtor said the multiple listing lock box on the front door had
been stolen.

Car Fire On Route
15

Officers arrived at West Union Turnpike on a
report of a car fire to discover a 1985 GMC pickup truck in flames
at 11:14 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10. According to the report,
firefighters from Wharton and Rockaway Township responded and put
out flames in the engine compartment and passenger compartment. The
driver, Timothy Crownover, 36, of Dover, said he noticed the flames
between the engine and passenger sections as he drove off after
dropping off a pal. He said he stopped, got out and dialed
9-1-1.

Mall Thefts
Reported

Everything Cellular and Wireless personnel
called police to the Rockaway Townsquare Mall business at noon on
Tuesday, Sept. 11, after discovering someone had taken the cash box
for the business, which contained about $3,000 cash. The only
people seen in the area were two black men, one thin and 30-40
years old, and the other of medium build.

Workers at Arden B. at the mall called
police at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, after noticing 15 shirts worth
$44 each were missing from a display. The workers told officers
they did see a couple of Hispanic women in the area of the display
shortly before noticing all the shirts were gone. No alarm went
off. The total loss was $660.

Police arrested Jason B. Rampersad, 19, of
South Orange at Sears at 12:31 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, on a theft
complaint signed by store management. Rampersad is accused of
taking $1,600 in cash from the store where he was a worker. He was
placed in Morris County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bail.

Officers were called to Lord & Taylor at
6:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, by store security workers who signed
a shoplifting complaint against Linda Rose Nieves, 41, of Rockaway
for allegedly trying to take clothing worth $35.

After he allegedly tried to conceal clothing
worth $84 on his person and leave JC Penney without paying for it
at 8:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, Trevor Ed Torreele, 18, of Newton,
was charged with shoplifting by store security and processed by
officers on the complaint, police said. He was placed in Morris
County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bail.

Another shoplifting complaint was signed,
this one by store security workers at ShopRite on Route 46, at 3:21
p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, against Viviana Escobar, 43, of
Morristown.

Escobar allegedly made some purchases, then
walked back into the store and added another $109.02 worth of items
to her shopping bags and tried to leave with the extra merchandise,
police said.

A Virginia man called police to the Hilton
Garden Inn at the outer mall at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, after
discovering a laptop computer and power pack worth $1,530 had been
stolen from his room. He said he was last in his room at 9:30
a.m.

DWI Arrests
Made

Allegedly seen swerving from the shoulder
over the double yellow lines and back by an officer on patrol at
1:57 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9 on Mount Hope Road, a vehicle driven
by Dante Fleres, 55, of Greenvale, N.Y., was stopped. He was then
charged with driving while intoxicated and careless driving, police
said.

A report of a motorist driving erratically
on Green Pond Road at 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, drew officers to
the road where they found a 2000 Chrysler operated by Ronald M.
Hackney Jr., 41, of Parsippany at the scene. He was charged with
driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, police
said.

Accidents
Investigated

The operator of a 2000 Harley Davidson and
the driver of the vehicle he hit on Mount Hope Road both refused
medical attention after the mishap, according to the report.
Michael Pilger, 50, of North Arlington told police he was driving
north on Mount Hope Road in his 1997 GMC at 5:22 p.m. on Saturday,
Sept. 8. As he rounded a curve, he said, he noticed the Harley
operated by Eugene B. Herchick, 54, of Montville, coming around the
curve from the opposite direction. Pilger said Herchick was going
too fast as he rounded the curve and crossed over the double yellow
lines and hit the driver's door of his vehicle, police said.
Herchick said his brakes locked up, causing the problem, police
said. Both men refused medical help and no vehicles were
towed.

Francis L. Duteau, 3rd, 17, of Lake
Hiawatha, blamed loose gravel in the road for losing control of the
1992 Ford Explorer he was driving west on Split Rock Road at 4:52
p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9. He ran off the road and hit some trees.
The vehicle was towed. He and his passengers, two boys, ages 15 and
16, were unhurt.

A 65 year-old Garfield man was taken to
Morristown Memorial Hospital after an accident at Eastern Concrete
at 7:42 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The man told police he was
operating a front-end loader when he stepped on the brakes, which
didn't work, and he and the machine rolled over and down a 10 foot
embankment. He was treated by Mount Hope rescue squad personnel who
took him to Morristown. Detectives were going to conduct a
follow-up investigation.

Police were called to NexPack on Green Pond
Road at 4:19 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, after a 21 year-old Dover
man was injured. The man was operating a small hand forklift,
according to the police report, when he hit a four foot steel post
leaning against a wall, causing it to fall on his right foot,
crushing his big toe. The first aid squad was called to
assist.

A double meter parking meter was found
behind the White Meadow Temple by a caretaker, who called police at
7:52 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 12. Municipal officials in Denville,
Dover and Wharton were called because all have recently experienced
meter thefts. The meters are valued by collectors.

The owner of a 1990 Mazda called police at 8
p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 12, to report someone took her handbag out
of her car. She said it was parked with the windows open, the keys
in the ignition.

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